Commentary by Dr. Patrick Slattery — I appreciated that these orthodox Jewish men of Brooklyn do not want to take up arms for the state of Israel. After all, I am sick of seeing my own countrymen and the men and women of so many “coalition partners” taking up arms and sacrificing life and limb for the state of Israel. I am tired of my tax dollars being used to arm the nuclear rogue state of Israel. I would like to ask these demonstrators, who are largely associated with the Chabad Lubavich movement that places a massive menorah on the White House lawn and whose anti-gentile Rebbe is honored by Congress, to use their obviously superior access to American policy makers so that none of us have to take up arms for the state of Israel. I would like them to intercede on behalf of the men and women of the world who, in the words of the former Chief Shephardic Rabbi of Israel Ovadia Yosef, “work and plow and reap” so that their Jewish brethren can “sit like an effendi and eat.” We too, like the orthodox Jews who were demonstrating in New York, should be able to devote ourselves to study and family life without repeated interruptions of tours of duty in countries set ablaze by Zionist colonization, oppression, and intrigue. -ps
Fifty thousand Orthodox Jews take over TEN BLOCKS of New York in protest over Israeli army plan to draft devoutly religious men
- Israel wants to extend its compulsory military service to some of its most religious residents
- Many ultra-Orthodox Israelis see this as a form of religious persecution
- The demonstration was a show of solidarity with Israeli ultra-Orthodox who’ve been protesting the proposal for weeks
- Last Sunday, hundreds of thousands of the devout Jews brought Jerusalem to a stand still in a massive show of force
Ten city blocks of Manhattan became a river of black Sunday as 50,000 dark-clad ultra-Orthodox Jews took to the streets to protest Israel’s proposal to force their young boys into its army.
The gathering took up a stretch of Water Street, with demonstrators standing behind police barricades amid tight security as they prayed in solidarity with their brethren in Israel.
‘These kids, a lot of them don’t know how to hold a gun. They don’t know what physical warfare is,’ said Long Island rabbinical student Shmuel Gruis.
